TREKfest '09!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Today J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot finally arrives in theaters, and everything's coming up Trekkie at Monsters and Rockets. Here you'll find some of the best, weirdest Trek stuff the web has to offer.
BAD SPOCK DRAWINGS: Since 2007, this blog has been featuring different artists doing their "bad" drawings of everybody's favorite Vulcan. (Sorry, Tuvok.) This blog is chock-a-block with Mr. Spock! Seen here: Dan Bigelow's not even slightly disturbing Fetal Spock.
THE SHATNER SHOW: In summer of 2007, Canada's UPPERCASE Gallery featured the work of 75 artists, all of it centered on Mr. William Shatner, Canada's favorite son. This blog offers a taste of the show, and reprints some of Mr. Shatner's own comments about it.
TOS ART: A collection of some amazingly stylish art based on the original Star Trek series. The very '70s movie posters for episodes like City on the Edge of Forever are just plain stunning.
SHATNERVISION: William Shatner posts charming video blogs, offering his thoughts on important topics of the day... Like being pointedly excluded from George Takei's wedding. Shatner and Takei are two of the most lovable old goofs around... And yet they absolutely despise each other. It's like watching your favorite uncles have a fistfight on the lawn.
STONE TREK: Ever wondered what the original Star Trek would be like if it was parodied Flintstones-style, with lots of "stone" puns and a ship made of wood and rocks? You did? Huh. That's sort of surprising. Well, wonder no more... Let Stone Trek take you "where no caveman has gone before!"
STAR TREK'S 6 MOST RIDICULOUS ALIEN RACES: Ah, I remember when Cracked Magazine was a lovable, somewhat cheesey Mad imitation. Remember Sylvester P. Smythe, Cracked's Alfred E. Newman lookalike? No? Remember Alfred E. Newman? Remember Mad? Jeez, you people are making me feel old. Anyway, now Cracked is a grown up website, full of funny lists with cussing in them, like this one all about Star Trek's goofiest aliens. (Seriously, there is totally NSFW cussing in this list. Sylvester P. Smythe would blush to read it.)
KLINGON OPERA: NPR did a story on u, a Klingon-language opera. It's a surprisingly artsy thing that the Members of the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble has been workshopping for the last year at Watermill Center in Long Island, N.Y. We wish them kaplah!
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Technocrati tags: [Star+Trek][William Shatner]
BAD SPOCK DRAWINGS: Since 2007, this blog has been featuring different artists doing their "bad" drawings of everybody's favorite Vulcan. (Sorry, Tuvok.) This blog is chock-a-block with Mr. Spock! Seen here: Dan Bigelow's not even slightly disturbing Fetal Spock.
THE SHATNER SHOW: In summer of 2007, Canada's UPPERCASE Gallery featured the work of 75 artists, all of it centered on Mr. William Shatner, Canada's favorite son. This blog offers a taste of the show, and reprints some of Mr. Shatner's own comments about it.
TOS ART: A collection of some amazingly stylish art based on the original Star Trek series. The very '70s movie posters for episodes like City on the Edge of Forever are just plain stunning.
SHATNERVISION: William Shatner posts charming video blogs, offering his thoughts on important topics of the day... Like being pointedly excluded from George Takei's wedding. Shatner and Takei are two of the most lovable old goofs around... And yet they absolutely despise each other. It's like watching your favorite uncles have a fistfight on the lawn.
STONE TREK: Ever wondered what the original Star Trek would be like if it was parodied Flintstones-style, with lots of "stone" puns and a ship made of wood and rocks? You did? Huh. That's sort of surprising. Well, wonder no more... Let Stone Trek take you "where no caveman has gone before!"
STAR TREK'S 6 MOST RIDICULOUS ALIEN RACES: Ah, I remember when Cracked Magazine was a lovable, somewhat cheesey Mad imitation. Remember Sylvester P. Smythe, Cracked's Alfred E. Newman lookalike? No? Remember Alfred E. Newman? Remember Mad? Jeez, you people are making me feel old. Anyway, now Cracked is a grown up website, full of funny lists with cussing in them, like this one all about Star Trek's goofiest aliens. (Seriously, there is totally NSFW cussing in this list. Sylvester P. Smythe would blush to read it.)
KLINGON OPERA: NPR did a story on u, a Klingon-language opera. It's a surprisingly artsy thing that the Members of the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble has been workshopping for the last year at Watermill Center in Long Island, N.Y. We wish them kaplah!
Got a tip for Monsters and Rockets? Want to contribute to the site? Send us an email.
Technocrati tags: [Star+Trek][William Shatner]
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